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****I've copied your remarks, above, to /Evaluation? and added a reply. --LMS
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:::I don't care that talk pages are "ugly." In fact, I don't particularly care that talk pages not be subpages, except insofar as adding that functionality allows people to make article subpages. What I mainly care about is getting rid of encyclopedia articles on subpages; see Wikipedia subpages pros and cons under "contra subpages." You can evaluate those arguments in /Evaluation?... --LMS
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::Oh! Great! I didn't notice...here's a way to make it more noticable: make the link blue (not green) and underlined, like the other links, so one can easily tell that it's a link. Omit the word "namespaces" which many people won't understand. The link test might read like this: "Discuss this page". I don't like that specific text because it invites people to blather on about the topic, as they so love to do, instead of working on the article. So maybe something like this: "Discuss how to edit this page" or "Discuss edits to this page" or "Discuss changes to this page". Probably, "Discuss changes to this page" is best. --~~~
::Oh! Great! I didn't notice...here's a way to make it more noticable: make the link blue (not green) and underlined, like the other links, so one can easily tell that it's a link. Omit the word "namespaces" which many people won't understand. The link test might read like this: "Discuss this page". I don't like that specific text because it invites people to blather on about the topic, as they so love to do, instead of working on the article. So maybe something like this: "Discuss how to edit this page" or "Discuss edits to this page" or "Discuss changes to this page". Probably, "Discuss changes to this page" is best. --LMS
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::Woo-hoo! You mean that all [[/Talk]] pages are converted to [[Talk:Foo]] pages automatically, renamed and everything? What would be even cooler is if [[/Talk]] were on its own line, as most talk page links are, and the link were removed automatically--the link will now automatically be there on every page, as you say below. ... Hmm, on second thought, maybe you're not saying all this. :-) It would still be cool if you could do that. --LMS
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::As to #3, I'd agree to converting /Talk? pages into Talk: pages upon being saved, rather than Foo/Talk pages. As to #4, I'm very resistant to this. We possess the capability to do it, and doing it would be cool from a programming point of view. It would make things a little easier for those who would want to continue to use something like talk pages for their articles. But this is functionality that I think in the end is damaging--not devastating, of course, but damaging. ::Hey, good luck with your finals, Magnus. Don't let your grades suffer for Wikipedia. :-) --LMS
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